A feminine soldier who was attacked and raped by a convicted serial predator at Fort Hood has filed a $10 million private damage criticism towards the U.S. Army, alleging that the service was conscious of sexual crimes and bodily abuse however did nothing to warn others or to place further security measures into place.
Mayra Diaz, 22, filed the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) administrative criticism on Jan. 20 based mostly on what she endured earlier this decade at Fort Hood (generally known as Fort Cavazos on the time) by the hands of Sgt. Greville Clarke, an Army noncommissioned officer who after three weeks of court-martial proceedings was sentenced to life in jail for a number of sexual assaults and bodily abuse. In whole, Clarke attacked 5 feminine troopers within the Fort Hood barracks over a 19-month interval, from March 16, 2021, to and Oct. 2, 2022.
He was apprehended on Oct. 3, 2022, and held in pretrial confinement all through the length of the investigation and court-martial. Clarke, 31 years of age on the time of his sentencing, was convicted on 29 counts together with rape, sexual assault, tried premeditated homicide, indecent visible information, theft, bodily assault, intent to commit kidnapping, and obstruction of justice. He was additionally discovered responsible of 29 separate specs, and never responsible of two specs (one specification of tried premeditated homicide and tried fraudulent use of an entry gadget).
He was finally sentenced to 112.5 years in jail. His sentence included a rank discount in rank to E-1, a dishonorable discharge from the Army, and a complete forfeiture of pay and allowances. Additionally, he refused to attend courtroom and the trial in individual.
Whereas serving his life sentence at the USA Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Clarke was discovered lifeless in his jail cell on Sept. 19, 2025 attributable to obvious suicide.
Army.com reached out to the Army and Pentagon for remark.
A Brutal Assault
Mayra Diaz enlisted within the U.S. Army in August 2021, serving as a carpentry and masonry specialist at Fort Hood in Texas from roughly February 2022 to August 2023.
She was 19 years outdated when she moved to Fort Hood in February 2022 as an Army personal, saying in her criticism that friends warned her to heed warning for function of security attributable to being a girl residing on base.
As she recounts, on the evening of Friday, July 15, 2022, Diaz was alone in her barracks room when she heard loud knocking at her door. When she regarded via the peep gap, she noticed a person carrying an Army uniform. Uncertain whether or not to open the door to an unidentified soldier in uniform at evening, however concurrently informed by sergeants that room checks ought to be anticipated, Diaz opened the door and noticed not one in every of her sergeants “however fairly a person I didn’t know, whose face was obscured.”
“He lifted his uniform shirt to disclose a handgun after which pressured himself into my room,” reads the criticism shared with Army.com. “He tied my fingers collectively above my head with tactical wire and blindfolded me. I noticed beneath the blindfold that he had placed on a condom.”
He threatened to kill me if I regarded once more. I begged him to cease what he was doing. He proceeded to violently rape me.
The scenario escalated as she “begged him to cease what he was doing.” After raping her, Clarke pressured her to bathe. Then, per the criticism, he put her on her mattress, poured water on her face, and waterboarded her to the purpose of choking.
Clarke then wrapped a wire round her neck, which she stepped on in an obvious try to kill her.
“I bear in mind smelling bleach and listening to him going via my cupboards,” the criticism reads. “He took with him my room key, navy and state IDs, pockets, automobile keys, digital gadgets, bedding and pillows and left my room.”
Close to-Dying Expertise
The scenario turned life threatening after Clarke, whose id on the time was clearly unknown, left her room. She recalled being out and in of consciousness on her mattress for roughly 1 1/2 days, waking up briefly to vomit.
Her mates checked on her the next Sunday afternoon, July 17, after receiving silence in response to their messages. They discovered her semi-conscious in mattress, in the identical place she was left by Clarke roughly 36 hours prior, with bruises on her face and neck.
“At the moment, I used to be experiencing lapses in reminiscence and couldn’t clarify precisely what had occurred to me,” stated Diaz, per the criticism. “My buddy known as our staff chief, who known as our platoon chief, who known as the navy police.
“As we waited for the police, I regarded right into a mirror however couldn’t see myself clearly as my imaginative and prescient was extraordinarily blurry. Ultimately the police arrived, and I used to be taken to the hospital on submit, Darnell Army Medical Heart, the place I first began to recall particulars of the assault.”
Diaz’s assigned Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program (SHARP) consultant met her on the emergency room, resulting in the submitting of an unrestricted report. Brokers from the Army’s Prison Investigation Division (CID) arrived on the hospital later that day to start their investigation, all whereas Diaz was nonetheless processing the assault and struggling to return to phrases along with her reminiscences of what occurred.
She spent 4 days within the hospital attributable to in depth accidents.
I had linear wounds throughout my neck, pink pinprick spots on my chin, and blood-red eyes from subconjunctival hemorrhaging—all indicators of strangulation—in addition to accidents on my wrists from the restraints.
“A strangulation professional confirmed that my confused state and lacking reminiscences had been signs of anoxia—whole oxygen deprivation to the mind,” she added. “I needed to be noticed as my lungs weren’t adequately absorbing oxygen, and there was blood in my urine. Whereas within the hospital I used to be prescribed medicines for sexually transmitted infections, an emergency contraceptive capsule, and ache medicines.”
Leaving the Service
She was launched from the hospital on or about July 21, 2022, and returned dwelling to get better in California, the place she remained on go away till Aug. 22, 2022.
“Whereas a small variety of my mates on base had been conscious of my assault, Army officers made no official warning to the broader Fort Hood group about what had occurred to me,” she stated.
Diaz returned to Fort Hood in August 2022 after her go away concluded, residing within the barracks once more however briefly attributable to concern and the truth that her attacker on the time had not but been caught. She requested to maneuver off submit into household housing “however confronted resistance from my main.”
She additionally discovered one thing else: Between Clarke’s 2022 arrest and his 2025 trial, she was solely conscious that he had attacked her and one other feminine soldier in October 2022.
“I used to be not conscious of every other victims of Sergeant Clarke throughout this era,” she stated. “In Spring 2025, my then-attorney knowledgeable me for the primary time that Sgt. Clarke had attacked three different girls at Fort Hood earlier than me.”
‘Horrifying’ Struggling by Diaz, Victims
Diaz is represented within the matter by Christine Dunn of the legislation agency Sanford Heisler, who can also be co-chair of the agency’s Sexual Violence, Title IX, and Victims’ Rights Follow Group, and affiliate Jillian Seymour.
Dunn informed Army.com on Tuesday that whereas Clarke was culpable in his actions, the Army is as nicely as a result of they “failed her.”
“What occurred to her was preventable, Dunn stated. “She ought to by no means have needed to undergo the horrific occasions that she went via. And so, she desires the Army to be held accountable in order that this type of factor by no means occurs to anybody else.
“Girls on Fort Hood have traditionally been very unsafe. There’s occasion after occasion of girls being victimized at Fort Hood, so the Army must take accountability in order that this stops occurring.”
The timing of Diaz’s criticism, Dunn added, is tied to Clarke’s court-martial within the spring of 2025 when she understood “the total scope of the Army’s negligence” which was the primary time she heard about all the opposite victims. She had solely recognized about one different one.
It additionally took her time to return ahead and reliving the character of what occurred to her, Dunn stated. Requested concerning the scope of what she endured, Dunn stated that what occurred to her and others was “horrifying.”
“I used to be much more horrified after I discovered that this had been occurring for a year-and-a-half and that the Army was not taking any measures to guard girls within the barracks,” Dunn stated. “They weren’t warning them, they weren’t placing safety cameras in place.”
There have been measures that might have been taken to stop this, and so they did not do it.
Requested concerning the after-effects, Dunn stated that Diaz had her navy dream “derailed” and can seemingly battle emotionally for the rest of her life.
Sexual assaults at Fort Hood through the years have garnered widespread consideration, all the way in which to the halls of Congress. It has been an unlucky development Dunn and Seymour have carefully adopted.
“We’d undoubtedly take into account the sexual violence disaster and the Army at giant, however particularly at Fort Hood, to be an epidemic,” Seymour stated. “And there have been quite a few studies that basically present information that establishes the speed of sexual assault is larger at Fort Hood in comparison with different areas.
“A part of that I believe actually has to do with security measures which might be put in place, particularly within the barracks to guarantee that these feminine troopers are protected. Repeatedly, we have simply seen the Army fail on doing that and retaining the premises protected there at Fort Hood.”
As beforehand reported by Army.com, on Dec. 15, 2025, the agency filed FTCA complaints towards the Army on behalf of seven Jane Does—all of whom had been sexually abused or non-consensually videotaped by Army physician Blaine McGraw throughout medical appointments on the Darnall Army Medical Heart in Fort Hood and the Tripler Army Medical Heart in Honolulu, Hawaii.
